SL clubs get £1.316m per year from the TV contract plus a further £60k from central RFL funding and then SL clubs share 60% of any profit made by the RFL.

They also get a further share of any surplus left in SLE at the end of the year. SLE has an income of ~£24m per year. The TV share out accounts for ~£18.5m of that. SLE then pays a contribution of costs towards big screen at TV games, marketing the competition, cost of full time referees, travel costs to and from Catalans and Opta Stats service, plus any prize money. If there is any surplus from the £5.5m left after all this then it is distributed on the basis of how many home televised games a club had.

On that basis I'd say SL clubs get nearer £1.5m per year from collective funding.

If there is any surplus from the £5.5m left after all this then it is distributed on the basis of how many home televised games a club had.

If that's the case, the first I've heard, then I'm not really happy about that. It's an obvious way of those at the top stretching away financially. I can deal with the top teams being on sky more often, although sometimes it's just stupid how often the same teams appear, but if they also get more money for it then that's not really on, as it's most likely sky who dictate who is on each week.

If that's the case, the first I've heard, then I'm not really happy about that. It's an obvious way of those at the top stretching away financially. I can deal with the top teams being on sky more often, although sometimes it's just stupid how often the same teams appear, but if they also get more money for it then that's not really on, as it's most likely sky who dictate who is on each week.

I think the principle is based on the fact that for a home game on Sky the club has to incur costs such as pitch painting etc and it is a way of compensating for those costs.

theres also the money super league clubs get as a result of there position at the end of the season to be taken into acount.
leeds got £300.000 for becoming champions and i think im right that widnes got around £20,000 for coming bottom

ah a sunday night in front of the telly watching old rugby league games.
does life get any better .

theres also the money super league clubs get as a result of there position at the end of the season to be taken into acount.leeds got £300.000 for becoming champions and i think im right that widnes got around £20,000 for coming bottom

Brilliant.

Fantastic way to create the competetive league from top to bottom that was one of the pillars of Superleague and the closed shop!

I'd flip the prize money. US sports have their drafts by way of keeping their leagues competitive and interesting - this could be our small nod to this system. It's hard to think a team would try to sink from 1st to 14th for the sake of an extra £280K. You make much more than this through the gate and in kit sales etc. by virtue of success. The small bit of extra cash could be just what your also rans need though to attract a big name player and help keep the fixture list intense and exciting. It's small potatoes. We need to do away with the idea of the successful sides reaping all of the spoils and this being somehow "just" and "fair". Their success is reward enough. I want to see intense NRL style rugby league on my own shores.

I'd flip the prize money. US sports have their drafts by way of keeping their leagues competitive and interesting - this could be our small nod to this system. It's hard to think a team would try to sink from 1st to 14th for the sake of an extra £280K. You make much more than this through the gate and in kit sales etc. by virtue of success. The small bit of extra cash could be just what your also rans need though to attract a big name player and help keep the fixture list intense and exciting. It's small potatoes. We need to do away with the idea of the successful sides reaping all of the spoils and this being somehow "just" and "fair". Their success is reward enough. I want to see intense NRL style rugby league on my own shores.

Maybe it's a bonus split between the players, I'd hate to see them falling over themselves to finish as low down as possible for a few thousand extra £s, or more likely those in charge of the purse strings.

I'd flip the prize money. US sports have their drafts by way of keeping their leagues competitive and interesting - this could be our small nod to this system. It's hard to think a team would try to sink from 1st to 14th for the sake of an extra £280K. You make much more than this through the gate and in kit sales etc. by virtue of success. The small bit of extra cash could be just what your also rans need though to attract a big name player and help keep the fixture list intense and exciting. It's small potatoes. We need to do away with the idea of the successful sides reaping all of the spoils and this being somehow "just" and "fair". Their success is reward enough. I want to see intense NRL style rugby league on my own shores.

I don’t like the idea that it’s “rewarding failure”. It isn’t. Failure is failure. To be involved with a top side means receipt of plaudits not exclusive to (but including) vast sums of cash. This would be a tiny balancing measure designed to give the failing clubs a little shot in the arm. It wouldn’t be highly desirable nor particularly sought after but it would send the right message. Is the US draft system “rewarding failure” Dave? I love it. I want to see a competitive NBA, not one where the New York and LA sides dominate every year. The TV audiences seem to agree with me.

If the difference was, say, between £2 million and £20K then I would agree with you and be opposed to it. It’s about making it fair and proportionate, so that “1st and (pot of money based on 1st place)” is substantially better all round than “14th and (pot of money based on 14th place)” but that at the same time you’re softening the blow a tiny wee bit and furthermore not just throwing money on top of money.

Given that you’re generally opposed to the leveling measures I suggest on this forum, how do you suggest we create the NRL intensity you also desire within Super League Dave? Because it sure as hell won’t be done by giving Wigan more central funding than Widnes.

Given that you’re generally opposed to the leveling measures I suggest on this forum, how do you suggest we create the NRL intensity you also desire within Super League Dave? Because it sure as hell won’t be done by giving Wigan more central funding than Widnes.